Trainer Alan Swinbank is keen to step Ella up in class so she can try to earn some black type for breeding purposes.

Ella put up a gutsy display in the mud to open her account in the Ladbrokes Fillies’ Handicap at Pontefract.

Lucky Spin dropped down to six furlongs for the first time in her career at York yesterday and showed she has enough speed to make her mark as a sprinter.

Lucky Spin was well beaten when she visited York for the Royal Ascot meeting last month, but it was a totally different story at the sun-drenched course today.